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| author | Michael Kozono <mkozono@gmail.com> | 2019-08-02 05:41:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Evan Read <eread@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-02 05:41:52 +0300 |
| commit | 7cfbeaac506b346f65f0549770f59c127ca1b6db (patch) | |
| tree | 0ccd7ab00d77ab9d6c98276b7f4237aa2bf28c73 /doc/user/admin_area | |
| parent | 3077c3569bc8569d7875b8fa6eda3346016334ed (diff) | |
Add rate limit docs
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/admin_area/settings/index.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md | 32 |
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diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/user_and_ip_rate_limits.png b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/user_and_ip_rate_limits.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2bd85a2fd96 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/img/user_and_ip_rate_limits.png diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/index.md b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/index.md index 5427d04cd7d..2a12614e325 100644 --- a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/index.md +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/index.md @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ include: - [Third party offers](third_party_offers.md) - [Usage statistics](usage_statistics.md) - [Visibility and access controls](visibility_and_access_controls.md) +- [User and IP rate limits](user_and_ip_rate_limits.md) - [Custom templates repository](instance_template_repository.md) **(PREMIUM)** NOTE: **Note:** diff --git a/doc/user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e3a495750f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/admin_area/settings/user_and_ip_rate_limits.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +type: reference +--- + +# User and IP rate limits + +Rate limiting is a common technique used to improve the security and durability +of a web application. For more details, see +[Rate limits](../../../security/rate_limits.md). + +The following limits can be enforced in **Admin Area > Network > User and +IP rate limits**: + +- Unauthenticated requests +- Authenticated API requests +- Authenticated web requests + +These limits are disabled by default. + + + +<!-- ## Troubleshooting + +Include any troubleshooting steps that you can foresee. If you know beforehand what issues +one might have when setting this up, or when something is changed, or on upgrading, it's +important to describe those, too. Think of things that may go wrong and include them here. +This is important to minimize requests for support, and to avoid doc comments with +questions that you know someone might ask. + +Each scenario can be a third-level heading, e.g. `### Getting error message X`. +If you have none to add when creating a doc, leave this section in place +but commented out to help encourage others to add to it in the future. --> |
